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Charles Valderrama
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Posted: 12 December 2024 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Question to the illustrators on the board... anyone (with an iPad of course!) drawing with Procreate or Adobe Fresco?

I liked the quickness of Procreate for sketching and painting... but the vector brushes Fresco offers is ideal for creating vector artwork and has gotten me hooked. Also, Fresco's compatiblity with Adobe CC is a plus as I use those programs regularly.

Thoughts?

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Dave Kopperman
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Posted: 13 December 2024 at 12:22am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

As an Adobe Professional for a quarter century and doodler for almost twice that, consider me deeply embarrassed that this is the first I’ve heard of Fresco. Thanks for the heads up on it, will definitely check it out.

I will say that while I’ve tried for years to get into digital drawing and done some things I rather liked, I just could never get over feeling disconnected from the work in the digital space. I came to realize that since my professional life was all digital, I wanted to keep my own stuff purely hand, paper/canvas, and medium of choice.
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Posted: 13 December 2024 at 11:58pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

I guess it’s the usual… what are you using it for? I use both on an iPad with
Apple Pencil. Have to say as an Adobe advocate for many years… Adobe
fresco is very much photoshop/illustrator ultralight. Adequate selection of
brushes but not a lot else.

Procreate beats them hands down on nearly every level. There’s so many
features, filters, brushes and effects… it’s a painters dream.
But… but…

If you do pen and ink illustrations as I do, Fresco is so much simpler to
operate. I typically work in Fresco, then import the artwork into Procreate to
touch up and effects.
At the end of the day it’s what works for you, I reckon.

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Posted: 14 December 2024 at 2:55am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

@jim: is there any interchange format between fresco & procreate, or do you simply save out in an standard format like PNG or TIFF?
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Posted: 16 December 2024 at 6:21pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

They both understand .PSDs though unsurprisingly effects from one
become rasterised in the other, layers are maintained.
It’s a weird one, I even paid actual money for Procreate (unheard of!)…. but
use the free version of Fresco most of the time because of its simplicity.
Fresco has recently made a bunch of its (paid upgrade) brushes free too.
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Posted: 16 December 2024 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

I actually DID buy ProCreate as well, and in many ways it was my argument to myself to invest in a decent iPad... but then I never bothered buying a stylus so I haven't as yet given ProCreate a fair shake. 

A young artist I know who is astoundingly gifted in every traditional medium also does a lot of beautiful work in ProCreate and a part of me was seduced by the idea of "if only I had that app they have, I could do that!"

But then it occurred to me that I work in many of the same traditional media they do and, well... it's a poor carpenter that blames their tools, I guess?

 
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Posted: 16 December 2024 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Go with Procreate. 
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